Ruling-machine.



W. P. .SLOAN.

RULING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED maiz, 1912.

1,055,816. y Patented Mar.11,1913.

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RULING MACHIE.

APPLICATION FILED 1111.12, 1912.

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APPLICATION FILED APR.12, 1912.

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W. P. sLoAN. 'RULING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED .APRA 12, 1912.

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WI T NESSES WILLIAM l. SLOAN, 0F KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

RULING-IVIACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

Application filed April 12, 1912. Serial No. 690,298.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. SLoAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Ruling-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw' My improvement relates particularly to means for supporting and raising and lowering the pens of ruling machines.

The object of the improvement is to provide for the raising and lowering of the pens or a group of pens of a single row or bank independently of each other and on diverse timing, in order that a plurality of lines to be ruled may begin and end at various places on the sheet, so that a single bank of pens may, during a single movement of the sheet, place upon the sheet a plurality .of lines which begin and end irregularly.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion at the right hand side of a ruling machine embodying my improvement; Fig. 2 is a right hand side elevation showing the mechanism of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a front view of my mechanism, portions being broken away; Fig. 4 is a section on the line, 4-4, of Fig. 3, looking toward the right; Fig. 5 is a section on the line, 5 5, of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is an elevation of a modification of the wheel shown at the right of Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is a section on the line, 7--7, of Fig. 6 looking toward the right; Fig. 8 is an elevation looking at the apparatus from the left hand side of the machine; Fig. 9 is a section on the line, .Q -9, of Fig. 4 looking toward the left.

Referring to said drawings, A, A, are the side rails of a ruling machine of the ordinary type.

B is a chair or base resting upon the right hand rail, A, and forming one of the supports for the operating parts of my mechanism. C is a similar chair or base resting upon the left hand side rail, A, and serving as another support for the operating portions of my mechanism. On the chair, B, is a standard, 1, having a bearing, 2. On the chair, C, is a similar standard, 3, having a similar bearing, 4. In said bearings rest journals or trunnions, 5, one of which projects horizontally from each adjacent end piece, 6, of a rocking frame, D. Said frame is composed of said end pieces and a bar, 7, and an angle bar, 8, extending parallel to each other from one end piece, 6, to the other of said end pieces and being rigidly secured to said end pieces in any suitable manner. The drawings show the bar, 7, extending into sockets, 9, while the upright web of the angle bar, 8, extends across the rear end of the end plate, 6.

The forward end of the right hand end plate, 6, has a toe or extension, 10, extending into a slot, 11, in a button, 12, which is turnable on an upright bolt or stud, 13. When said button is turned so as to engage said toe in said slot, the end plate, 6, and the entire frame, D, are immovable. position in which said frame is held when any of the pens are in position for ruling and not held out of position by one of the cam wheels. When the frame, D, is to be tilted so as to lift all of the pens away from the paper, said button is turned to release the extension, 6, and then the frame is turned until said extension is above the side of the button, 12. Then the button is turned until it rests beneath said extension. Then the frame is allowed to turn by gravitythe greater weight being forward of the trunnions, 5,-until said extension rests on top of said button. Thus all of the pens are held away from the paper.

Upon the fixed bar, 7, are mounted any desired number of pen clamps, E, adapted to hold any desired number of pens, 14. Each pen clamp comprises a base plate, 15, resting transversely upon the bar, 7, and secured thereto by a bearing or sleeve, 16, loosely surrounding said bar. l An upper jaw This is the piece, 17, rests upon the front portion of the v base plate and is secured thereto by a thumb screw, 18, extending upward through the base plate. Thus each clamp is adapted to rock independently of the other clamps upon the bar, 7. The rear end of the base plate, 15, extends beneath and a little way rearward of the angle bar, 8, and is there provided with a hook, 19. On the upright web of the angle bar, 8, is a grooved slide block, 20, having a rearward-directed hook, 21. A contracting coiled spring 22, has one end secured to the hook, 19, and has the other end secured to the hook, 21, and draws the rear of the base plate, 15, upward. A screwform adjustable stop rises from the base plate, 15, and normally presses against the lower face of the angle bar, S, and limits the upward movement of the rear end of the base plate, 15, by the stress of the spring, 22. Said stop is to be so adjusted as to cause the pen or pens, 14, supported by said clamp to bear upon the paper when said stop bears against the bar, SQ An arm, 24, rises from each clampinto the pat-h of the cam plates on one of the cam wheels, F. Each bearing, 16, is shown a little wider than the remainder of the clamps of which said bearing forms a part, in order that said bearings may abut against each other endwise while the adjacent faces of the base plates, 15, and upper jaws, 17, do not meet and make frictional engagement. Collars, G, surround the shaft, 7, and are secured to the latter by set-screws, g, in proper positions to keep the clamps from sliding parallel to the length of the shaft, 7. Said cam wheels are mounted on a rotary shaft, 25, supported in a bearing, 26, on a standard, 27, rising from the base, B, and in a left hand bearing, 28, on a standard, 29, rising from the left hand base or cha-ir, C. The standard, 27, extends into a socket, 30, on the base, B, and is secured in said socket by a set-screw, 31, while the standard, 29, is shown integral with the base, C. On the shaft, 25, are secured as many cam wheels, F, as there are clamps, and there may be more such wheels than there are clamps, for

at times only a few clamps are used. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the cam wheel has a body and a hub, 34, composed of a single piece, the hub slidably surrounding the shaft, 25, and being provided with a setscrew, 35, extending through said hub and bearing against said shaft to secure the wheel immovably after it has been put into the desired position on the shaft. In Fig. 6 the body and hub of the cam wheel are split and the two sect-ions are held together by thumb screws, 36. then said Wheel is thus split, it may be put upon the shaft, 25, while the latter rests in its bearings. The shaft, 25, and the cam wheels, F, turn clock-wise as viewed in Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 6.

Each cam wheel is provided along its periphery with cam faces or dwells properly located and of proper lengths to cause the adjacent arm, 24, to be engaged during proper intervals and pressed rearward to tilt the companion clamps, E, to lift the pen or pens, 14, on said clamp and make the desired breaks and gaps in the ruling.

Y In order that the same cam wheels may be adapted to Varying work, the cam faces or dwells are placed upon cam plates, 37, which are adapted to be secured in varying positions along the periphery of the wheel. In the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, each such plate has a slot, 38, concentric to the wheel axis. Binding screws, 39, are set horizontally into the right hand face of the wheel and adapted to extend through the slot, 3S, of any plate, 37. Said plates arc made thin enough to overlap, in order that a cam face or dwell of any desired length may be formed by overlapping a suiiicient number of said plates. Some of the plates may have portions of their outer edge cut away so that the dwell portions of said plates are shortened. In the upper portion of Figs. 2 and 4, there is a cam plate having a comparatively short dwell. To the right 4of that plate is another plate having a dwell which is longer and yet less than the full length of the plate. All of the plates -are reversible, as will be seen by an examination of the three upper plates in Fig. 4. The wheel shown by Fig. 4 has the cam plates arranged for one short gap in the ruling, another corresponding to a little more than the length of two plates, and another corresponding to the length of about one plate and a half, and another corresponding to about the length of three plates. When the pens are to be mounted singly upon clamps and are to stand close to each other, the clamps must be set close to each other and the cam wheels must be brought correspondingly close to each other. In such cases, the caln wheels must be of small cross section in the direction parallel to the wheel axis. To attain this, the wheels are made in disk form and provided at one side with an annular marginal chan-nel, f, to receive the cam plates, 37, and the binding screws, 39. Said screws may have small slot-ted heads requiring a minimum of space, as shown in Fig. 5. Then the wheels need not be brought together so closely, said binding screws may have broadened heads, as shown in the right hand portion of Fig. 1 and in Figs. 6 and 7.

Instead of being made completely cylindrical, the bar, 7, may have opposite sides cut away and the bearing, 16, may be left open, as shown in Fig. 4, so that when the spring, 22, is unhooked, 'the clamps, E, may be tilted backward until the bearing, 16, is so turned as to allow it to be lifted away from said bar for the removal of the clamp.

Power is applied to the shaft, 25, from the drive shaft, 40, through the gear wheels, 41, 42, 43, 44, the last mentioned being on the shaft, 25, the wheels, 42 and 43, being idlers, and the wheel, 41, being on the shaft, 40, (see Figs. 3 and 8).

I claim as my invention:

1. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary support extending transversely across the machine, means permitting bodily lifting said support, a plurality of pen clamps shift-ably mounted upon said support in a row or bank transverse to the machine, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

2. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary support extending transversely across the machine, means permitting bodily lifting said support, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support in a row or bank Jtransverse to the machine, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substant-ially as described.

3. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally stationary support, extending transversely across the machine, means permitting bodily lifting said support, a plurality of pen-clamps hinged upon said support in a row or bank transverse to the ma* chine, and means for turning said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing` the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

t. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary supportextending transversely across the machine, means permitting bodily lifting said support, a plurality of pen clamps hinged upon4 said support in a row or bank transverse to the machine, and means for turning said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substantially as de scribed.

5. In a ruling machine, thecombinat-ion of a normally-stationary clamp support extending transversely across the machine, a spring support parallel to and held at a fixed distance from said clamp support, means permitting bodily lifting said clamp support, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said clamp support in a row or bank transverse to the machine, and 'means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon said support for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to approach and recede from the paper, substantially as described.

6. In a ruling machine, the combination of a frame extending transversely across the machine, 'and comprising a clamp support and a spring supporting bar, said frame support being movable up and down, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support in a row or bank transverse to the machine, springs applied to said clamps and said spring supporting bar for normally holding said clamps in position to cause the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to stand in position to hold said pens to the paper to be ruled, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon said clamp support in opposition to said springs, substantially as described.

7. In a ruling machine, the combination of a no-rmally-stationary rocking support extending transversely across the machine, a plurality of pen clamps shiiitably mounted upon said support out of lthe axis of said support, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

8. -In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary rocking support extending transversely across the machine, a plurality of pen clamps hinged upon said support out of the axis of said support, and means for turning said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing their pen-supporting ends to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

9. In a ruling machine, the combination of a rocking support extending transversely across the machine, means for holding said support at different elevations, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support, and means br shifting said clamps independently of each other upon said support for causing their pen-supporting ends to move upward and downward, subst-antially as described.

10. In a ruling machine, the combination of bearings located at opposite sides of the machine, a frame extending across the machine and having journals resting in said bearings and comprising two members par allel to each other and extending from end to end of said frame, a plurality oit' pen clamps hinged to one of said members and yieldingly secured to the other oit' said members, and means for turning said clamps independently of each other for causing their pen-supporting ends to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

ll. In a ruling machine, the combination of a rocking frame extending transversely across the machine and having a toe or extension, means for detachably engaging said toe or extension, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said frame, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon said frame for causing the pen-supporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, substantially as described.

12. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary support extending transversely across the machine, means permitting lifting said support, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support in a row or bank, cam mechanism substantially as described.

13. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary support extending transversely across the machine, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support, and means for shifting said clamps independently of each other upon and relative to said support for causing the pensupporting ends of said clamps to move upward and downward, and means for simultaneously shifting all of said clamps for lifting their pen-supporting ends entirely from the paper, substantially as described.

14. In a ruling machine, the combination of a normally-stationary support extending transversely across the machine, a plurality of pen clamps shittably mounted upon said support in a row or bank, and a plurality of cam wheels, each oit which is in operative relation with one of the clamps Jfor shifting the latter from the paper independently of the other clamps and springs working in opposition to said cam Wheels, substantially as described.

15. In a ruling machine, the combination of chairs located at opposite sides of the machine and each having a bearing, a normally-stationary rocking frame having jour nals resting in said bearings, a plurality ot pen clamps hinged independently ot' each other upon said frame out of the aXis of the frame, and means for turning` said clamps independently of each other, substantially as described.

16. In a ruling machine, the combination of chairs located at opposite sides of the machine and each having a bearing, a rocking frame having journals resting in said bearings, locking means mounted upon one of said chairs in operative relation with said rocking frame, a plurality of pen clamps hinged independently of each other upon said frame, and means for turning said clamps independently of each other, sub stantially as described.

17. In a ruling machine, the combination of chairs located at opposite sides of the machine, a normally-stationary support eX- tending transversely across the machine and held by said chairs, a plurality of pen clamps shiftably mounted upon said support in a row or bank, a cam wheel shaft supported by said chairs, a plurality of cam wheels located upon said shaft in operative relation with said clamps for shifting said clamps independently of each other from the paper, and springs working in opposition to said cam wheels, substantially as described.

18. In a ruling machine, the combination of a frame comprising a non-cylindric, shaft-form support extending trans\f'ersely across the machine, a plurality of pen clamps each having an open bearing partially surrounding said support and engaging the latter when the clamp is in its connected position and being free from said support when said clamp is tilted out of the connected position, and means for turning said clamps upon said support independently of each other, substantially as described.

19. In a ruling machine, the combination of a frame extending transversely across the machine and comprising two bars, a plurality of pen clamps hinged to one of said bars, springs joined to said clamps and to the other of said bars, and stops for limiting the action of said springs, and means tor turning said clamps independently of each other in opposition to said springs, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 9th day of April, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

VILLIAM I). SLOAN.

Witnesses SAMUEL A. OoDnN, CYRUs KEHR.

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